Monday, 18 May 2009

This is a 45 minute music set for Science Fiction played as a warm up for a Lexa Sands Industrial music set. It starts off slow, then builds.

Seventh Wave - Camera Obscura (From Psi-Fi)

Curved Air - Back Street Luv

Lunabee and Swan - The Great Illusion

Joystick - intro

Joystick - Welcome to the Factory

Timo Maas - To Get Down

Propellerheads - Spybreak!

Propellerheads - Bang On!

Astralasia - Spirit of the Age (Original 12" Remix - 1993)

Cyantific Vs. Logistics - Flashback

Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes

A few tracks may be hard to find. Seventh Wave, Psi-Fi can be found as a Japanese Import or German re-release. The two standout tracks are Camera-Obscura and Star Palace of the Sombre Warrior.Joystick - Welcome to the Factory can be bought as a downloadable album and I reccomend it as there are fantastic songs and beautiful vocals by Coco Love-Alcorn; you can sample it on http://www.last.fm/music/Joystick .

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Lunabee and Swan. Lunabee is a Belgian musician who has many solo albums. Her music is full of fantastic melodies and beats, subtle, savage, and beautiful. Jo Swan is a vocalist who has been in the music business for some time, principally with the group Ilya. Jo Swan heard Lunabee's muisc and offered to add vocals. Her vocals are tender and tinged with black humour. The result is quite amazing though it has taken me a few listens before it truly grew on me.

My next reccomendation is a bit of an oddity (no surprise there), the soundtrack to Grandma's Boy (2006). I don't know who chose the music, but it is full of great music tracks from groups I had not heard of.

These are the people who have had most to do with making Tanglia what it is:-Pristeen Barbosa - Manager of Worlds' End Tavern who schedules the events, conceives, builds, and organises the scenery, keeps order and is overall fantastic! Enthusiastic, organised and one of my best friends in Second Life.Lexa Sands - Runs our two music and games servers which are located in France and Las Vegas, programs all our various gadgets, helps Pristeen to build.Talia Jiang - Owner of Tanglia. Overal concept and running the Island.

Last night we have a new DJ starting, Stephanya Constantine an already popular DJ in Second Life who blew us all away with her music. Pristeen Barbosa made the most incredible scenery inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

Friday, 8 May 2009

At Worlds'End Tavern on Saturday, time to get out your guitars and strike a pose as a member of a band. Grab your guitar or dance animations and boogie to the music, vote for the most entertaining performance and possibly win. Choose your music from the following list or request your favourite track to rock to before the event starts. Sorry but I cannot add any music once the event has started.

We will have The Tangles backing you, our Worlds' End Tavern backing group.

David Bowie - Fame

David Bowie - Golden Years

David Bowie - Golden Years

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

Deep Purple - Burn

Deep Purple - Highway Star

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

Elastica - Connection

Fleetwood Mac - Shake Your Moneymaker

Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)

Jeff Beck - Dirty Mind

Jeff Beck - Rollin' And Tumblin'

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

Primal Scream - Rocks

Santana - Black Magic Woman

Santana - Jungle Strut

Stray Cats - Rock This Town

Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts)

Stereophonics - Madame Helga

T-Rex - 20th Century Boy

T.Rex - Get It On

The Jam - Town Called Malice

The Mooney Suzuki - Alive & Amplified

The Music - Freedom Fighters

The Noisettes - Scratch Your Name

The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket

The White Stripes - Ball And Biscuit

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

U2 - Vertigo

Weezer - Hash Pipe

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For the cayenne and black pepper, I use a premixed blend called Hot Shot

I recommend you start boiling the water for the pasta before you start anything else.Brown the ground beef, drain.Add all of the other ingredients, except the pasta, stir it up and simmer, stirring every commercial break. (i.e. every fifteen mintues or so) Once onions are cooked, the chili is done.Serve over pasta.

For the cayenne and black pepper, I use a premixed blend called Hot Shot

I recommend you start boiling the water for the pasta before you start anything else.Brown the ground beef, drain.Add all of the other ingredients, except the pasta, stir it up and simmer, stirring every commercial break. (i.e. every fifteen mintues or so) Once onions are cooked, the chili is done.Serve over pasta.

Mix well, put on low heat on burner for 5 minutes so ingredients get blended. Pour into an uncooked pie crust, and back at 400 F (200 C) for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 300 F (150 C) for 30 minutes.

Today we were talking about food. Kaelson Muliania asked whether this sounded any good.

[14:12] Kaelson Muliaina: So, I have the meat marinading while I see if you guys think my new plan has any merit[14:12] Talia Jiang: OK kael, listening[14:13] Kaelson Muliaina: About a pound of beef, marinaded in vinegar and oil, chopped up, cooked in a skillet with some of red onion[14:14] Kaelson Muliaina: Then, a side of tomatoes with olive oil, basil, and a little bit more balsamic vinegar[14:15] Talia Jiang: Are you asking advice?[14:15] Kaelson Muliaina: Yeah[14:15] Kaelson Muliaina: Does that sound good?[14:15] Talia Jiang: I would brown the meat first, then take it out soften the onions then add the meat back in[14:15] Kaelson Muliaina: Not cook them together?[14:16] Talia Jiang: The onions need about ten minutes alone for caramelisation[14:16] Talia Jiang: You can add sugar to onions to speed it up[14:16] Talia Jiang: Its the conversion of the sulphurs to a sweeter fuller taste[14:17] Talia Jiang: When the onions have turned more yellow you know that they are ready[14:18] Kaelson Muliaina: Hoooo! (I start playing VHS or Beta, Night on fire)[14:18] Talia Jiang: If you want a more bitter taste use butter instead of oil[14:18] Kaelson Muliaina: I like this song[14:18] Talia Jiang: Me too !

We often have food discussions while dancing. This is the first of our recipes by Ardeesha Algoma.

well you chop 2 large onions a few cloves of garlic ,3spanish green pepperschop them and fry in a tablespoon of oiladd a smaal piece of fresh chopped gingerone tin of tinned tomatoes choppedadd a tablespoon of turmericand desert spoon of garam masal in a liter of water with about a kilo of lambif you can get fenugreek leaves it fab with lambTalia Jiang: sounds lovelyand corander to garnishcook for about one hour slowly